Enrollment
427
Elementary
DISTRICT 462 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530240000333
Cedar Valley Elementary
19200 56TH AVE W, LYNNWOOD, WA 98036 · (425) 431-7390 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL427 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Washington public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
315 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 82 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 78% larger than its 6th grade class (46).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
24.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -28.1pp since 2014
Math
17.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -31.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 28 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 31 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.4% | 17.6% |
| 2023-24 | 21.9% | 13.9% |
| 2022-23 | 22.9% | 17.3% |
| 2021-22 | 26.6% | 13.9% |
| 2018-19 | 35.4% | 22.5% |
| 2017-18 | 40.2% | 37.5% |
| 2016-17 | 39.9% | 33.5% |
| 2015-16 | 49.8% | 42.0% |
| 2014-15 | 52.5% | 48.6% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cedar Valley Elementary
Cedar Valley Elementary's state test result (21.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Valley Elementary this school | 427 | 73.8% | 21.6% |
| Seahurst Elementary School Burien | 405 | 69.6% | 24.2% |
| College Place Elementary LYNNWOOD | 473 | 75.3% | 27.5% |
| Blix Elementary School Tacoma | 442 | 71.9% | 29.0% |
| Valhalla Elementary School AUBURN | 517 | 75.2% | 35.4% |
| Lake Grove Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 390 | 77.9% | 27.0% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cedar Valley Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #895 of 936 | #104 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.6% | #1,061 of 1,103 ▲ 13 | #104 of 106 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #1,032 of 1,102 ▲ 15 | #104 of 106 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.8pp | #506 of 928 | #65 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 427 | #525 of 1,268 | #81 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #70 of 1,085 | #2 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #388 of 1,088 | #59 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.8% | #199 of 1,169 | #9 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #729 of 778 | #65 of 68 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
427
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
+104% since 1990-91, when it was 209
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 12.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 427 | 32.6 | 13.1:1 | 74% (315) |
| 2023-24 | 450 | 33 | 13.6:1 | 74% (333) |
| 2022-23 | 396 | 32.1 | 12.3:1 | 71% (283) |
| 2020-21 | 430 | 34 | 12.7:1 | 72% (310) |
| 2017-18 | 438 | 28.3 | 15.5:1 | 76% (332) |
| 2015-16 | 449 | 26 | 17.3:1 | 80% (357) |
| 2010-11 | 421 | 23 | 18.3:1 | 59% (247) |
| 2000-01 | 343 | 17 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 209 | 26 | 8.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar Valley Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (438 to 427); teachers up 15% (28.3 to 32.6).
About Cedar Valley Elementary
Cedar Valley Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in LYNNWOOD, Washington, under Edmonds School District. The school covers kindergarten through 6 and reported 427 students in 2024-25.
Edmonds School District, which runs Cedar Valley Elementary, has 37 schools and 20,955 students.
Federal enrollment data show Cedar Valley Elementary is 51% Hispanic. Next come 24% White, 12% Black, 9% Asian, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 12% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 66%.
Cedar Valley Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1, with 32.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 74% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Snohomish County is 41%.
On the allk12 Grade, Cedar Valley Elementary lands at F, ahead of 2% of Washington public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Cedar Valley Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 21.6%; the prediction is 30.7%.
Snohomish County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $111,246, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 227 public schools in the county, enrolling about 118,688, Cedar Valley Elementary among them.
Among nearby public schools, Lynnwood Elementary is closest at about 0.8 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Cedar Valley Elementary ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, Cedar Valley Elementary enrolled 430; in 2024-25, 427.
The allk12 page for Cedar Valley Elementary lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edmonds School District
- Edmonds Woodway High SchoolHigh · 1,605 students
- Meadowdale High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Mountlake Terrace High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
- Lynnwood High SchoolHigh · 1,335 students
- Meadowdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Alderwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
Other schools in LYNNWOOD
- Meadowdale High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Meadowdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Alderwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Spruce ElementaryElementary · 632 students
- Lake Stickney Elementary SchoolElementary · 628 students
- Lynnwood ElementaryElementary · 578 students
Other Cedar Valley Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Cedar Valley Elementary. Cedar Valley Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Cedar Valley Elementary SchoolCovington, WA · 318 students
- Cedar Valley Elementary SchoolKILLEEN, TX · 570 students
Nearby schools
- Lynnwood Elementary0.8 mi · 578
- Edmonds Career Access Program1.0 mi · 383
- Lynndale Elementary1.1 mi · 442
- Contracted Schools1.1 mi · 18
- College Place Elementary1.4 mi · 473
- College Place Middle School1.5 mi · 479
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar Valley ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Cedar Valley Elementary?
Cedar Valley Elementary enrolls approximately 427 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Cedar Valley Elementary serve?
Cedar Valley Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Cedar Valley Elementary have?
Cedar Valley Elementary employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Cedar Valley Elementary?
Student demographics at Cedar Valley Elementary are roughly 24% White, 51% Hispanic, 12% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Cedar Valley Elementary public or private?
Cedar Valley Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Edmonds School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.